The role of social environment on parental care: Offspring benefit more from the presence of female than male helpers

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 491-503

  Brouwer, Lyanne ^a   Van de Pol, Martijn ^a,b   Cockburn, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Helping; Load lightening; Provisioning behaviour; Red winged fairy wren; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COOPERATION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SONGBIRD; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SONGBIRDS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84894281690     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12143     Document Type: Article

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